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Louis R. Wilson, Editor of the Alumni Review of the University 
of North Carolina 


Ladies and Gentlemen: 


At the meeting of the Teachers Assembly at Asheville last year 
President Wright submitted for the Educational Commission of North. 
Carolina a report concerning the prblic schools of the State with 
recommendations for their improvement. D,. Brooks amplified certain 
phases of the report and outlined, then, and later before the G,neral 
Assembly, practical plans for carrying into effect the remedial measures 
proposed, some of which ere since been written upon our statute books. 
During the past twelve months he has boldly proclaimed the duty of all 
forward-kooking North Carolinians in this all-important North Carolina 
question - the better education of all the State's citizenship. 

Today, after what proved to be a veritable educational crusade 
has been waged in the State for the State's institutions of higher 
| learning, and after drives have been carried on by churches of almost 
every name in the State for increased funds for higher education, - today, 
| 1 say, Presidents ¥Youst and “ew have set forth the part the higher educa- 
tional institutions: hope to play in the educational advancement of the 
State in the next decade. ‘hey realize that educationally this decade 
can be, and must be, the most important in the history of North Carolina, 
‘and to that 6nd call upon all of us to make it so. 


For the carrying out of the program outlined by Dr. Brooks and 


Presidents W,ight, Foust and Hew, |! wish to propose that the colleges 
of North Carolina individually and collectively, utilize, as they have 


never done before, the rapidly increasing body of college alumni and 


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utilization of the thousands of living matriculates of North Carolina 
colleges as follows: 

First, hat each North Carolina college organize its alumni 

group. 

Strange as it may seem, it's only within the past ten years 
that, with possibly one or two exceptions, really effective working 
alumni organizations have been perfected in North Carolina colleges. 
Rach institution has its board of trustees, its faculty, its student 
body, these three constituents of the modern college have been def- 
initely organized, and all are performing their proper functions. But 
the fourth, the many thousands of living sons and daughters who have 
passed through their halls and have gone out into the life of the 
State and nation, have not been alloted their vroper place in the 
complete college program. individual alumni, have, from time to time, 
played their full part in the life of their respective institutions; 
but general, united alumni effort, until recently and in sporadic 
anges. has been the exception, rather than the rule. ‘he office of alum- 
ni secretary, with all that it implies as to thé welding and binding 
together of large groups to advance particular movememts, has only 
recently been established in a number of the colleges of the State, and 

but slight opportunity for systematic, coordinated effort has been 
given the thousands of Nerth Carolina college matriculates. 

After organizing their alumni, 1! would suggest in the second 
place that the colleges keep them informed es to the program which the 
institution is attempting to carry out. With the exception of ‘he 
_ Alumnae Record, ofsalem, now in its 45th volume, no other North Rasy ian 
alumni publication comes to my desk bearing a volume number higher 
than 10. The alumni aasociation of the University issued two numbers 


of the Alumni Quarterly in 1894 and then the publication died. Surely 


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if modern business houses require house organs. to maintain morale, 
to convey information, to Suggest improved methods of carrying out 
the purposes of the house, North Caroling colleges, in their struggle 
for existence and their splendid endeavor to serve, need constantly 
to acquaint their constituencies with their program and invoke their 
assistance in carrying it out. 

In the third place, I would urge that the colleges call upon 
their alumni to enrich the life of the campus. in making this sug- 
gestion, I do not have in mind the student appeal for non-productive 
advertising or the demand on the alumni for support of campus ath- 
letics. On the contrary , I have in mind the establishment of a 
tradition among the alumni similar to that which is said to exist in 
New England: namely, that it is considered a disgrace by a ravvaes 
or Yale alumnus to die without having given his alma mater something. 
Every North Carolina college executive knows that however attractive 
our illustrated descriptive bulletins may be, our resources are in 
hundreds of particulars far too inadequate for the complete training 
of the youth of North Carolina. I do not have the figures before me, 
but the questionnaire recently submitted to the colleges of the State 
by Dr. Brooks wn ehes summarized, undoubtledly tell a story of 
limited laboratory equipment, of libraries that are too small to pro- 
vide a broad background for courses of instruction, of a dearth of books 
and pictures in the field of fine arts, of the lack of pipe organs 
awed pianos for the cultivation of students in the art of music, not to 
mention the lack of beautiful physical surroundings and the far too 
frequent employment of inexpetienced teachers as instructors of the 
freshman classes. 


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Should be made one hundred, instead of forty per cent efficient, and 
thereby the colleges of North Carolina should be brought to the point 


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Opportunity for intellectug#l development and for breadth of view 
provided here in Nerth Carolina be as great as in any state in the 
Union. 

In the fourth place, I would urge that the local alumni associa- 
tions be given a program that relates to the welfare of the local 
community, that it be Reread not only to study the interests of Alma 
Mater, but that it also study the interests of the local community 
and that the local membership line up solidly to promote the local 
common good. Ue there is any one thing which has cheered me more than 
any other i recent years, it is the activity and spirit of the Kiwanis 
and Rotary clubs. Their mottoes, respectively, are, we build, we 
serve; whereas; if a motto for alumni associations could be chosen which 


fairly adequately charactérized their activities it wonld probably 


be we reminisce! 


Recently I was fortunate enough/to be the guest of the Rotary lub 
of Raleigh at a time when it was holding a meeting at which reports were 
received concerning the educational program of the thirty-five clubs 
in the two Carolinas and Virginia. Not a single club reported, but 
that it was urging high school boys to stay in high school or go on to 
college; and a number of clubs were arranging funds for the assistance 
of the underprivile@ged ambitious youth who wanted to enter college, 
put lacked the means. Fifteen months ago it was my privilege to 


address the Kiwanis club of Burlington on the advisability of estab- 


‘lishing a public library. ‘The Library, with an outlay of $11,000 of 


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a result, in large part, of that Club's activity. And in the press 
from week to week I see where this club has put across a program for 
the provision of a county tuberculosis sanitorium, or has provided a 
training camn for boy scoyts, or has done something fine and done it 
with snap and enthusiasm. I say again, that in this sort of attitude 
on the part of the alert, openminded leaders in the various communities 
of North Carolina, I see more that should hearten men like Drs. Brooks 
and Rankin than in any other single thing in North Carolina. In these 
I see the answer to the demagogue who, throughout the decades has held 
North Carolina back by emphasizing the emptiness of our pocket books 
rather than the abundance of our ability and faith in our splendid 
qualities of mind and heart. ) 

To the college presidents of North Carolina, I say that I covet 
for them informed, well organized local alumni groups who will set 
themselves the task of making the life of their communities full and 
complete in every way; that I covet for them the same fine achievement 
on the part of their sons and daughters in local chapters as that of the 
clubs mentioned. 

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alumni groups to assist in furthering those public causes which look 
to the upbuilding of a great State. As intelligent men and women North 
Carolina college alumni know that if the State is to be great, if it is 
to take its real place in the sisterhood of states, they must play their 
full part. 

Mr. Chairman, I feel that possibly I have spoken of something 
that was clearly obvious to all of us. My claim to forgiveness for 


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the alumni publication of the State University, I am just beginning 
to see what North Carolina has lacked in that the alumni of her higher 
educational institutions have gone out into the life of their communi- 
ties and the State not with too small a conception of their duty as 
citizens, but with too little knowledge of the way in which they can 
back the program of their foster mothers and of the communities and 
PeUMEESATLH which they shoulda serve. Poasibly an diineuealia mem 
make my meaning clearer. In May, 1919, at the call of Dus. Claxton, 
Brooks, and Foust, North Carolinians a thousand strong met in Greens- 
boro in the most earnest educational Conference I have ever attended in 
the State. A fine current of enthusiasm and inspiration ran throughout 
the purposeful audiences. At the last general aaaiane when the con- 
ference was ennuciating its program and representatives of the chambers 
of commerce, of the Rotary Clubs, of the Kiwanis Clubs, of the Womens 
Clubs, of the higher educational institutions, were pledging their 
Support, the thought flased through my mind how splendid it would have 
been had the presidents of the alumni association of the State's colleges 
both privately and publicly matntained, been present to pledge, each in 
turn, the hearty support of the program both for themselves and the 
entire membership which they were privileged to represent, and not only 
tohave pledged it, but to hage supported it, in season and out, wntil 
the purpose of that great conference was realized in better education- 


al opportunities for every school boy and girl in North Carolina. 


An address delivered before the Department of Higher Education . 
of the North Carolina Teachers Assembly, November 25, 1921, ‘ 
by Louis R. Wilson, Editor of the Alumni Review. 


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